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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Moe Egan wrote: | | If you want to hear an audiobook narrated by the author who knocks it out of the park, listen to The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. Fan-freakin-tastic. |
That's because Ron is a professional audiobook narrator who also happens to have written a book. He's the preferred narrator for all of Baldacci's books.
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Elizabeth Eakin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Fortunately, it is not a voice-over book! Ironically, it's a book about improving your listening skills (something I'm working on in conjunction with the improv classes I've been taking recently.) "Ironically" because I think I am spending less time absorbing content (as a 'Level One' listener should do) and more time rocking in the fetal position muttering, "Call me....call me...call me...." Which I believe to be 'Level Five' or 'Six' listening, which just won't do.
I think THIS is actually the reason we may sometimes have a hard time getting good rates, and why we're undercut by our own peers. If someone played this for me and said, "We're going to publish this, unless you agree to record the entire book for ten bucks and a pack of gum," I would most likely agree. I don't think I could be responsible for knowing I allowed this recording to be perpetrated on the general population. It's a moral dilemma.  |
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Mandy Nelson
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For me it would depend on the gum 
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Diane Havens
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My top two favorite author/readers are:
Of course, first, Steve Martin -- when I read his stuff I can hear his voice in my head anyway, even his fiction and plays,
Second, David Sedaris, who is quite moving, and funny without trying at all to be funny, while reading.
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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Diane Havens wrote: | | funny without trying at all to be funny. |
That, right there, is the key to comedy in any form.
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tabhasg
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| I know many audio publishers try to dissuade authors from reading their own books. Also, I've had authors contact me after they heard my read of their book very pleased and surprised that it came out on audio at all. Apparently, some authors don't even know that the books are being released on audio which seems odd. Maybe that's another preventative measure; record the book before the authors know it! I have never heard an author narrated book that didn't send me off the road either asleep or in a paroxysm of awkward cringing. |
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Deirdre
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Listen to Stephen King read Hearts in Atlantis.
Damnation— what a slice of American life.
Mostly, I'm not fond of his reads, but this was supremely excellent.
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Frank F
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| Quote: | | tabhasg wites ..."I have never heard an author narrated book that didn't send me off the road either asleep or in a paroxysm of awkward cringing." |
Or, laughing so hard at the attempt at good VO, I cannot see the road.
Toodles hahahahahahahahahaha
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TheVoiceOfBob
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What's so hard about it? It's just reading out loud.
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RussRenshaw
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What's so hard about it? It's just reading out loud. |
</sarcasm>
Until that reading out loud completely takes you out of the experience.
I'm listening to a series of fantasy novels right now about swords and wizards and epic struggles. But the narrator feels the need to read it as Zap Brannigan from Futurama. Oh man, is it tough to get through. |
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